70 
System, the duty being 1 rupee per niaund, was 
15,238 rupees on that number of maunds. Düring 
the next six years, the duty being half a rupee per 
maund, the average yearly produce rose to 52,236 
maunds, giving a revenue of 26,118 rupees yearly. 
Düring the next 12 years, that is, up to 1861 inclusive, 
to which time the accounts are made up, the yearly 
average of produce rose to 346,083 maunds, and the 
revenue to 86,524 rupees, the duty having been re- 
duced to a quarter of a rupee per maund. This 
short statement serves to show the good effect of 
liberal measures. 
More than 30 years ago a few Europeans were 
engaged in coffee planting near Chickmoogloor, a 
few miles from the Bababooden Hills. “ Bad moun- 
tain ” were commenced by two enterprising gentle- 
men. The success of these has induced many more 
Europeans to plant coffee in Mysore. The conse- 
quence is, that the coffee trade of Mysore bids fair to 
emulate that of Ceylon. It has given also an ex- 
ample to other parts of India, and the plant onginally 
taken from the Bababooden Muth is now extending 
over tensof thousandsof acres in Coorg,the Wynaad 
district, the Neilgherry Hills, and along the Western 
Ghauts, North and South. 
In Mysore the number of European coffee planters 
has within the last 10 years increased to 20 or 30. 
The number of native planters is estimated between 
3,000 and 4,000. The quantity of land planted or 
taken up cannot be ascertained with any degree of 
accuracy. The revenue depending upon the quality 
of the coffee produced, not upon a tax on land, there 
is no regulär correct System of land measurement. 
This way of taxing is bad ; it leads to bad cultivation 
and smuggling. It is to be hoped that a land tax 
will be adopted instead, which would have a good 
moral and fiscal effect. It would put an end to 
smuggling, and would be a great inducement to the 
natives to improve their cultivation, which is now 
very slovenly. If the tax were on the land they 
would make more effort to increase the produce of it. 
The average produce per acre in Mysore is probably 
not half that of Ceylon. 
The coffee districts are eonfined to the region of 
the Western Ghauts and the Bababooden Hills. 
Some attempts have been made to cultivate coffee in 
the open country, but without success ; it seems to 
require forest land and considerable elevation and 
moisture. 
Elevations of 3,000 feet and under that to 1,200 
are probably the best for coffee. Plantations at 
higher elevations than these may occasionally come 
into use to secure high-flavoured produce without 
reference to profit. The whole of the coffee district, 
with here and there an exception of feverish spots, 
possesses a climate in which the European can live 
and work u'ith comfort, and, with moderate care and 
prudence, with health. The presence of the Borer 
inseot, which of late has proved so destructive to the 
coffee plantations, has been attributed by the Natives 
to over-clearing and cultivation. This explanation 
seems more probable from the fact that the more 
roughly cleared and less cared for gardens of the 
natives are seldom subject to the attacks of these 
insects, and as it is certain that they do not attack 
the younger and more sappy wood, the native idea 
of leaving a few forest trees and stumps for them to 
feed upon is not so far-fetched a notion as we, in 
our supposed greater wisdom, may happen to think. 
Planting has of late years been oarried to such an 
extent by Europeans and natives in Mysore, that but 
little available land remains. These mountain and 
forest wastes have been turned into rieh productive 
gardens. From being the most wild and desolate 
parts of Mysore, these districts have become very 
prosperous, and the people have been raised from 
poverty to comfort, and in many instances to wealth. 
The natives are benefiting largely by the Capital and 
example of European planters, and are learning the 
Science of planting. 
Mysore generally, especially the coffee districts, 
affords a most promising field for European Capital 
and enterprise. 
1,528-9. Coffee. Dr. G. Bidie. Madras. 
2,191. Salem Coffee. 
2,184-5. Pollay Betta Coffee. Coorg. 
2,186—7. Craig Tilly Coffee. Coorg. 
2.188. Anderson’s Coffee. Mysore. 
2.189. Coffee. Mysore Coffee Company. 
2.190. Coffee. Cullaly Estate, Mysore. 
P.B. Pea Berry Coffee. Captain R. N. Taylor. Coorg. 
A. and B. Plantation Coffee. Captain R. N. Taylor. 
Coorg. 
Grown on the Jaggoonda Estate, in the province 
of Coorg. Elevation, 3,000 feet. Average Tem- 
perature, about 750 Fahr. Fall of rain under 100 
inches. Exhibited by the proprietor. 
6,097 to 6,106. Collection of Arabian Coffee from 
Aden, exhibited by Bombay Local Committee. 
8,482. Coffee grown in Chittagong. W. Sarson. 
C.—SPICES. 
Spices are very extensively employed in the cook- 
ing operations of Oriental nations, including many 
which are scarcely known in that character in the 
West. This is the case especially with the carmina- 
tive seeds, such as coriander, carraway, &c., which 
we are not accustomed to see in Company with 
mustard and pepper, but are associated with them 
in the Asiatic cuisine. 
GINGER 
Zingiber qfficinule 
Is the dried rhizome or Underground stem of a plant 
which is cultivated for that purpose in the tropical 
regions of both hemispheres. Its quality and com- 
mercial value differs considerably in different localities, 
and is influenced very much by the method of Col 
lection and preparation. 
871. Ginger, Indore. 
3,587. Ginger. Oude. 
8,828. Ginger. Rajshahye. 
2,637. Ginger. India Museum, London. 
The following account of the cultivation of ginger 
has been received from the Hill States adjoining the 
Ambalah district. Ginger is principally produced 
in Mahur Massä, Patra, Darrä, Kothi, Kotahi, 
! Bagal, and Jayäl. The best pieces of last year’s 
harvest are selected and placed in the corner of a 
| house in the month Phägan ; the heap is then